North of Austin is the city of Waco, Texas, where libraries have meditation rooms, poetry festivals last three days, and of course, great barbecue is never far away.

Tour guide Rachel Lynne Wilkerson grew up in West Texas, and moved to Waco for college, returning in January 2014 for work. As Rachel describes it, "what Waco lacks in typical charm it makes up for by providing an abundance of what Anne Shirley terms “scope for the imagination.”